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Re:“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low... by patmorgan23 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:02PM (#32160864)
It could even be that increasing serotonin is helps improve the patients mood and break thought patterns/cycles than kept them in their depression.
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Re:“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low... by lumost on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:08PM (#32160900)
It could be that any forced cognitive pattern change would have the same effect.

Double blind trials are hard, double blind comparative trials are more or less impossible.

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Re:“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low... by klodolph on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:21AM (#32161746)
The mechanism of SSRIs is not well-described as "increase serotonin".
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